{"id":224991,"date":"2025-07-04T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224991"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:32:11","slug":"georgia-officer-arrested-after-drunk-driving-crash-injures-several-on-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224991","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Officer Arrested After Drunk Driving Crash Injures Several on July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Georgia probation officer faces DUI charges after causing a multi-car pileup on I-20 that seriously injured several people and shut down the interstate for hours on Independence Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\ude97 <strong>What Happened:<\/strong> State Trooper investigators say Alexis Friendly, a two-year veteran with the Georgia Department of Community Supervision, was driving drunk in her government Ford Explorer when she caused a chain-reaction crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Explorer rear-ended a Toyota Corolla near Fairburn Road in Douglas County just before midnight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The impact sent both vehicles spinning, hitting a Mitsubishi Outlander and a parked Lexus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfe5 <strong>The Victims:<\/strong> The Toyota driver suffered serious injuries requiring airlift to Kennestone Hospital, while others received minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u23f1\ufe0f <strong>Catch Up Quick:<\/strong> The crash created a six-hour traffic standstill on eastbound I-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc6e <strong>Official Response:<\/strong> The Georgia Department of Community Supervision has suspended Friendly immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia probation officer faces DUI charges after causing a multi-car pileup on I-20 that seriously injured several people and shut down the interstate for hours on Independence Day. \ud83d\ude97 What Happened: State Trooper investigators say Alexis Friendly, a two-year veteran with the Georgia Department of Community Supervision, was driving drunk in her government Ford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":15837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18405,11068,8933,18404],"class_list":["post-224991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-alexis-friendly","tag-drunk-driving","tag-dui","tag-probation-officer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}